Articles tagged:No Child Left Behind

What if No Child Left Behind Really Meant Leaving No Child Behind

Posted: Thu May 13 7:20 a.m. by Jeff Kass Community Contributor

If you’ve been following this column, it should come as no surprise that I’m no fan of George W. Bush. I was opposed to the Iraq War and the whole weapons-of-mass-destruction bamboozle. I didn’t like the massive tax cuts and the trickle-down economic strategies. I hated the anti-environment policies and ...

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3 questions for: Professor Brian Jacob of the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Posted: Sun Nov 29 5:47 a.m. by David Jesse

Ever since the federal No Child Left Behind law was signed in 2001, it’s been a lightning rod of controversy. Now up for reauthorization, a lot of debate has waged around the effectiveness of the education law. Brian Jacob, a professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School ...

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Standardized tests: Failing civics over the public air waves

Posted: Thu Nov 12 7:30 a.m. by Jeff Kass Community Contributor

The other morning the happy talkers on 96.3 DVD, a radio station that bills itself as playing Today’s Best Hits without The Rap - a genre then derided as torture in a snappy promotional tag - attempted to answer questions that appeared to come from a ninth-grade civics test. They ...

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